Mean Girls, Adult Style
Rosalind Wiseman, the author who wrote the book that inspired the hit movie Mean Girls is suing Paramount Pictures. According to her lawyers, she is trying to share in some of the earnings from the blockbuster hit her work has turned out to be. You can read about it here or here or anywhere else, […]
Making the Most of Time
Last week, Wired magazine published an interview with author and artist Jenny Odell, on the topic of her new book, Saving Time. I read her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy a few years ago, and I loved it immensely. It was so dense and thoughtful that I thought that I absolutely […]
Christian Seders: Yay or nay?
The holiday of Passover is coming up— for good reason, I don’t know the exact number of days because it is a deadline that inspires a lot of anxiety. But it’s soon. This year, on FaceBook, one of my friends is hosting a preparatory screed against Christian Seders. That is to say, she is angrily […]
Fangirl Moment: Jill Lepore on Writing Well
I recently came across this short, two-page paper written by Jill Lepore called “How to Write a Paper for this Class.” It was meant for her students of history at Harvard University, but I love it immeasurably and think it is much more widely applicable. To be fair, when it comes to Jill Lepore, I […]
Academic High School Pressures
A friend recently sent me this article from the Atlantic, written by Derek Thompson, wondering if I had some thoughts about it. If you haven’t seen the article, in brief, he wonders if the discussion about teen well-being has been missing considerations of academic pressures as drivers. I’m sorry, WHO exactly does he think has […]